Advisory Board and Editors Bioinformatics
Nagarajan Raju
Nagarajan Raju completed his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), India. Earlier, he worked as a project assistant at a bioinformatics center, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, where he mainly focused on the computational analysis of protein structures and interactions. After his Ph.D., he joined Dr. Georgiev‘s laboratory as a post-doctoral research fellow in April 2016 and focused on computational immunology research. In March 2022, he joined the Bosinger lab as an Associate Bioinformatics Scientist where he will be focusing on the analysis of bulk and scRNAseq data to understand the immune responses due to infection and/or vaccination.
Rommel T J Ramos
The Rommel Ramos Professor of Bioinformatics of Federal University of Para (Brazil) affiliated member of Brazilian Science Academy and CNPq Researcher (level 1-D). Since 2008 works with genome assembly and RNA-Seq analysis, he is the leader of the bioinformatic development group of the Biologic Engineering Laboratory in Park of Science and Technology (Pará/Brazil).
Shoba Ranganathan
Shoba Ranganathan holds a Chair in Bioinformatics at Macquarie University since 2004. She has held research and academic positions in India, USA, Singapore and Australia as well as a consultancy in industry. She hosted the Macquarie Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics (2008-2013). She was elected the first Australian Board Director of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB; 2003-5); President, Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (2005-2016) and Steering Committee Member (2007-12) of Bioinformatics Australia. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Computational Mass Spectrometry (CompMS) initiative of the Human Proteome Organization (HuPO), ISCB and Metabolomics Society and as Board Director, APBioNet Ltd. Shoba’s research addresses several key areas of bioinformatics to understand biological systems using computational approaches. Her group has achieved both experience and expertise in different aspects of computational biology, ranging from metabolites and small molecules to biochemical networks, pathway analysis and computational systems biology. She has authored as well as edited several books in Immunoinformatics as well as contributed several articles to the Encyclopedia of Systems Biology, published by Springer in 2013. She is currently Editor of Elsevier's Reference Module in Life Sciences and Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier's Encyclopedia of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
Ana Reyes-Menendez
PhD Cum-Laude and Extraordinary Award in Business Economics from Rey Juan Carlos University specialized in Neuromarketing and Digital Marketing. Post-doctoral Research stays in Universidade Portucalense, Universidade do Algarve and RCC at Harvard University.
Assistant Professor of the Department of Business at Rey Juan Carlos University. Research focused on Online Consumer Behavior, Information Science, Data Science for Business and Biometrics.
Juan L Rodriguez-Flores
I am a Computational Biologist, Assistant Professor at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. I use -omic data to understand the mechanisms of disease risk.
I began my career as a Biology Undergraduate at MIT, where my first research project was to invent a method for attaching DNA to glass as part of the then-unfinished Human Genome Project. After MIT, I explored career options in Medical School Sillicon Valley and NIH, eventually earning a PhD in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology from UCSD. My doctoral dissertation involved characterizing the regulatory genetics of the adrenaline-synthesis gene PNMT, as well as more broadly studying the human adrenergic stress pathway. Seeking additional training in genomics and statistics, I spent a year working with Kelly Frazer at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center, followed by a move to Weill Cornell Medical College in 2010. As a postdoc, I developed a set of genomic analysis skills and tools that I applied to numerous projects, both locally and with international collaborators such as the 1000 Genomes Project, Weill Cornell Medical School in Qatar, and the University of Puerto Rico. In my current appointment as Assistant Professor, I am tasked with developing biotechnology tools for precision medicine.
Luiz F. W. Roesch
Dr. Luiz F. W. Roesch is an Associate Professor within the Department of Microbiology and Cell Science at the University of Florida.
Dr. Roesch is microbial ecologist working with biomarkers of health and disease in human samples and of homeostasis or perturbation in environmental models. His research focuses on testing fundamental hypotheses in microbial ecology, especially in the Human Microbiome.
Dr. Roesch's primary expertise is in Next Generation Sequencing, Bioinformatics, and 16S rRNA surveys.
Torbjørn Rognes
Torbjørn Rognes is the Head of the Biomedical Informatics Research Group at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, and a research scientist at the Department of Microbiology at Oslo University Hospital, Norway. He obtained a MSc in computer science in 1994, a PhD in bioinformatics in 2001 and a professorship in 2010. His main interest is in development of algorithms and tools for sequence analysis, and has recently worked mostly with metagenomics and metabarcoding. He is a co-author of the VSEARCH, Swarm and SWIPE tools.
Camillo Rosano
A physicist; in 1996 Camillo Rosano started his studies in Macromolecular Crystallography at the Advanced Biotechnology Center, Genova (I). In 1997 he achieved the Advanced Certificate in Principles of Protein Structures (PPS), Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and in 1998 he spent a period at the “York Structural Biology Laboratory” York University, York, UK for a Macromolecular crystallography traineeship. He participated to the NASA expeditions STS100/ISS6A and STS110/ISS7A by designing experiment of protein crystallization on-board the International Space Station (ISS). Director of different Courses and Workshops, he is the author/coauthor of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications.
Dr. Rosano is a Full Professor in Biochemistry and Full Professor in Applied Biology. Italian Ministry for University, Education and Research (MIUR), 2012.
Gary Rosenberg
Pilsbry Chair of Malacology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and Professor, Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, Drexel University. Commissioner, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Editor for Mollusca, World Register of Marine Species and MolluscaBase.
His research focuses on the origins and magnitude of diversity of the Mollusca, with active research currently in the Philippines (marine and terrestrial mollusks) and Jamaica (land snails). He uses biodiversity databases to better document the known diversity of mollusks and to estimate their total diversity.
Julio Rozas
Julio Rozas is Full Professor of Genetics at the Universitat de Barcelona (Spain), member of the executive committee of the Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio-UB). ICREA Academia Researcher. Past postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University.
Rob Russell
Co-director of Bioquant and Professor of Protein Evolution at Heidelberg University. Previously Group Leader at EMBL, Heidelberg, Academic Editor at FEBS Letters at PLoS Computational Biology.
Francesco Russo
I am a molecular and cellular biologist with a long experience in non-coding RNAs (in particular microRNAs). My main interest is about computational biology. Currently, I am a member of the Brunak lab at the NNF Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen and I'm also an affiliated member of the Computational Biology Lab at the Danish Cancer Society in Papaleo lab. I am working on data integration of omics data, electronic patients records, analysis of laboratory tests and drug effects in cancer patients.
I am also interested in non-invasive biomarkes. In 2012 I designed and developed the miRandola database (https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/46/D1/D354/4191335), the first extracellular circulating microRNA database.